Facing Terminal Illness

What should be done about terminal illness? My family recently went through this with my father. He was diagnosed with incurable cancers around Father's Day. Six months and $1.5 million in medical bills later, he was dead from them.

Was the suffering my father and family had to go through really necessary? I don't know.

I compared what he went through vs. someone on death row. The government makes that death as painless and quick as possible. Why can't a terminally ill person have the same option? Too often it seems that medical technology is being used to just extend their agony on earth one more day.

Although everyone involved treated Dad as politely and professionally as possible, I felt that the entire process was barbaric and a waste of money. He would have died from his incurable cancers no matter what they had done.

And so I'm left with the same question I started with: What should be done about terminal illness? Light needs to be shone on the issue.